Our Membership Magazine - The Victorian Society - Campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop-category/publications/our-membership-magazine/ Campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage Wed, 02 Apr 2025 10:26:08 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Our Membership Magazine - The Victorian Society - Campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop-category/publications/our-membership-magazine/ 32 32 43: Young Victorians https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publications/our-membership-magazine/young-victorians/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:51:03 +0000 https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=3686 July 2013 We profile five Young Victorians who have been inspired by the nineteenth century.

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]]> Young Victorians Five views of how the Victorians can inspire us

Gallery curator, Sonia Solicari

Tile maker, Chris Cox

Listing adviser, Melissa Thompson

Architect, Benedict O’Looney

Ceramicist, Amy Frankie Smith

House Notes Moses Jenkins describes rubble walling

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]]> 65: Women in architecture https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publications/our-membership-magazine/women-in-architecture/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:50:13 +0000 https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=3684 November 2020 - From Sarah Losh to Ethel Charles: Women, design and architecture in the 19th century.

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]]> 41: William Burges: Gothic Revival genius https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publications/our-membership-magazine/william-burges-gothic-revival-genius/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:49:15 +0000 https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=3682 November 2012 A new edition of J Mordaunt Crook's biography of Burges has been published; we explore his life and work.

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]]> Billy Burges revisited J Mordaunt Crookreturns to the subject of his 1981 biography

William Burges and Cardiff Castle Matthew Williams on the restoration of Burges’s greatest creation

Unlocking Burges’s genius Rosemary Hannah looks at the Third Marquess of Bute as patron

Top Ten most endangered Victorian and Edwardian buildings in England and Wales 2012

House Notes Current techniques for repairing statuary Moses Jenkins

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]]> 36: Who do you think you were? The census issue https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publications/our-membership-magazine/who-do-you-think-you-were-the-census-issue/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:48:06 +0000 https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=3680 March 2011 Census day is 27 March 2011. We celebrate the twenty-first modern census by looking at what use those interested in Victorian and Edwardian buildings might make of the information it contains.

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]]> While aggregate data is immediately useful for public administration, it is the detailed records only made public one hundred years later that are of most use to those interested in geneaolgy and individual buildings.

The making of the modern census Nigel Goose examines the development of the census in the Victorian period and its use by historians today

The census and Victorian housing Colin Thom describes how he has used the census in his research into London history

The 1851 religious census We focus on some places of worship highlighted in this unique mid-Victorian survey

House Notes: Using archival sources to inform conservation work by Moses Jenkins

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]]> 22: Victorian swimming pools: Going down the drain? https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publications/our-membership-magazine/victorian-swimming-pools-going-down-the-drain/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:47:01 +0000 https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=3678 July 2006 Public swimming pools are a threatened species. By the Government's own estimate, swimming pools owned by local authorities need maintenance costing something like £500 million. Local authorities' preferred method of dealing with this problem is to close them. The London Pools Campaign tells us that, every year, one London swimming pool closes and is not replaced. It seems odd that, in the lead up to the Olympics, local swimming pool provision is shrinking.

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]]> Great pools of splendour Ian Gordon outlines the history of the swimming pool in Britain, from plunge baths to leisure pools

Victoria Baths: From community campaign to TV stardom Gill Wright, project manager of the Victoria Baths trust, tells the story of saving and restoring these famous baths

Victorian and Edwardian pools nationwide – the state they’re in A round up

Beside the seaside Kathryn Ferry looks at why we should cherish our Victorian seaside heritage

House notes edited by Kit Wedd

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]]> Victorian schools: Beacons of the future? https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publications/our-membership-magazine/victorian-schools-beacons-of-the-future/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:46:01 +0000 https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=3676 March 2007

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]]> The future of Victorian schools Andrew Saint sets these buildings in their historical context, and Joe Holyoakoutlines the Society’s response to the challenges presented by government rebuilding programmes

The Manchester Board Schools A photo essay

Bonner a gonner Kathryn Ferry documents the sad end of Bonner Street School

Learning from the past drawing competition results

House notes: Wooden windows on the web The internet can help you work out what to do with your windows, says Ian Dungavell

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]]> Victorian parks: Is the grass greener? https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publications/our-membership-magazine/victorian-parks-is-the-grass-greener/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:44:34 +0000 https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=3674 March 2009 Despite the credit crunch, at least Britain's Victorian municipal parks are still free for all to enjoy. Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund, many have been rescued from a spiral of decline.

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]]> As the articles in this issue show, they have been transformed from run-down magnets for antisocial behaviour into elegant places of retreat for everyone. But we need to remind local authorities of the need to look after them.

Victorian Parks: is the grass greener? Hazel Conway discusses some fo the great restorations of the last fifteen years, and what remains to be done

Birkenhead Park: the first and still the best Robert Lee describes the thirty-year campaign to restore the park

Three park transformations David Lambert, Sue Kohler and Alison Hunter look at Alexandra Park, Oldham, Sheffield Botanical Gardens and Baxter Park, Dundee

House Notes Ali Davey describes how to maintain and repair architectural ironwor

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]]> Turn right for Hull https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publications/our-membership-magazine/turn-right-for-hull/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:43:25 +0000 https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=3672 November 2010 As we commemorate 70 years since the Blitz, it is remarkable that Hull has been largely absent from the press coverage.

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]]> Apart from London, Hull was the most heavily bombed city in Britain, so it would not seem a fruitful hunting ground for Victorian buildings, but it is surprising what has survived. Hull has a remarkably rich architectural heritage, with many good Victorian and Edwardian buildings.

Victorian and Edwardian Hull David and Susan Neave describe the city’s rich architectural heritage

Hull History Centre Judy Burg introduces the new, purpose-built, centre

The top ten most endangered Victorian and Edwardian buildings in England and Wales 2010

Top ten endangered buildings 2009 An update

House Notes: Victorian brickwork by Moses Jenkins

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]]> Tower Bridge https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publications/our-membership-magazine/tower-bridge/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:42:27 +0000 https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=3670 July 2019 Sir Horace Jones, the young Victoria, and walking in the footsteps of Nairn.

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]]> 1914-2014 Michael Hall on marking the anniversary

Cornish Cream Peter Beacham, author of the revised Pevsner, celebrates Cornwall’s Victorian legacy

Cornwall’s chapels Francis Kelly and Jeremy Lake discuss a heritage at risk

House Notes Moses Jenkins examines the challenges of earth construction

The old rectory, St Columb Major The future of William White’s masterpiece

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]]> To infinity and beyond https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publications/our-membership-magazine/to-infinity-and-beyond/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:41:24 +0000 https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=3668 November 2018

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]]> The next sixty years of the The Victorian Society 

Robert Thorne looks at the Society’ future.

The books that built us 

Griff Rhys Jones, Jonathan Meades, Sir David Cannadine, Dame Fiona Reynolds, Dr Tristram Hunt, Dr Rosemary Hill, Dr Anna Keay and Simon Jenkins nominate the books on Victorian architecture which inspired them.

Owen Jones and the Orient 

Olivia Horsfall Turner unveils a new Own Jones acquision for the V&A

House notes: Let it flow 

Moses Jenkins on ventilation in old buildings

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2018 

Harriet Lawrence on this year’s list of most threatened Victorian and Edwardian buildings.

Casework 

An update on the Society’s recent casework.

Case Study: Toynbee Hall 

Book reviews 

Young of Belfast, science and the Palace of Westminster, ‘Authentic Restoration’, and the new Pevsner for Dorset.

News and views 

St Andrew’s Moscow, Christina Rossetti and an appreciation of the career of the late Nicola Gordon Bowe.

A Society built on you 

Harriet Lawrence interviews Nina Hatch about her thirty years volunteering for the The Victorian Society.

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